Fans only miss two games in club’s history
A CURRAJONG couple who are diehard Cowboys supporters have turned their home into a blue and yellow shrine in the lead-up to Friday’s preliminary final at Queensland Country Bank Stadium.
They hope to win one of five double passes to the game in a member’s only competition run by the Cowboys club.
For Lorraine Johnson and Alan Foley their passion for the club runs deep and they are foundation members from the club’s first game in 1995.
Up to this year the couple have only missed two home games since that first game.
“One we were in Melbourne and another one I was having a heart operation which is a pretty weak excuse to miss a game,” Mr Foley said.
Such is their passion almost nothing gets in the way of a Cowboys game.
“When our kids got married or had babies they were told not to do it on a Cowboys night because we won’t be there.
“They are Cowboy supporters too and they understood.”
Mr Foley is urging others to decorate their homes next week for the upcoming grand final, such is his confidence the Cowboys will win tonight.
“We would love to see other people get involved, Lorraine was at the players shop yesterday and she met a lady from
Palm Island who is decorating her house and I thought that was great,” he said.
Mr Foley said it was his partner Lorraine who decorated the home.
“She does it every time the boys get into the final – or even State of Origin she decorates the house. Lorraine has boxes of (Cowboys) memorabilia since 1995.”
Mr Foley said they have had a constant stream of people driving past admiring the home.
Mr Foley believes this season is the start of good times ahead for the Cowboys after finishing near the bottom of the ladder last year.
“My theory is they are such a young team and are learning – they have got a few older players teaching them.”